Teacher and student relationship….Relacionamento aluno e professor….

And this is where the brilliance of the famous teacher/student prayer (Saha Navavatu) comes into our conversation. Not only is the prayer put in the “We”, as in the teacher and the student are discovering Yoga together, but it also deliberately creates space for imperfection and flaws. It acknowledges the teacher is not perfect. Somehow in various ways neither party is going to be approaching the whole thing perfectly. And so in a certain way it’s a miracle when learning takes place. That is why to learn is the greatest gift and so in that sense its so easy to kill it, to squash learning, to turn away from it and to negate it and so that’s why both the student and the teacher ought to be willing to go to great lengths to protect their learning relationship. Each must treat the process of learning as fragile and valuable. And so you surrender to the process and there’s a certain trust that even through the flaws the learning is going to come through. The right learning is going to come and somehow miraculously it does come. It really does.

OM, protect us both, teacher and pupil.
Cause both to enjoy the Bliss of Liberation
May we find out the true meaning of the scriptures
May our learning be brilliant
May we never quarrel with each other.
OM, Peace, Peace, Peace